Jeanne Moreau Quotes
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Success to your meetings. Future of this country depends on breaking up the land monopoly-it withers the land, depresses wages, destroys independence, and drives millions into dwellings which poison their strength. Godspeed to every effort to put an end to this oppression.
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It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
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All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
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Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
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If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
